A Chinese gilt bronze seated figure of Amitayus, Qianlong pe...

Hammer

£4,200

A Chinese gilt bronze seated figure of Amitayus, Qianlong period, dated 1770, the crowned figure holding his hands in dhyana mudra inset with a red gem stone, and seated dhyanasana on a rectangular plinth draped with a long cloth and a flower head at its center above the inscription Da Qing Qianlong gengyin nian jing zao, the interior of the plinth stamped and incised, 18.5cm high, mandorla lacking Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

CONDITION:

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.